Editor’s Note: Please see our follow-up report at the end of this article. The 2004 magazine ad for Silver American Eagles that caught Maureen O’Neill’s eye included a thumbnail history and some mumbo jumbo about the coins being “certified gem brilliant uncirculated” and “sonically sealed in a tamper-evident holder.” But…
Pete Schulte is running against Lupe Valdez — a fellow Democrat. Whuh-oh. Well, we just got off the phone with Pete Schulte, who plans to run against Sheriff Lupe Valdez in the Democratic primary next March. Only 29, Schulte works as a prosecutor in the District Attorney’s Office and is…
We need a hero. Well, it looks like embattled (should that be her first name now?) Sheriff Lupe Valdez may have an opponent in the Democratic primary. We don’t know much about the guy yet, other than he’s relatively young and works in the District Attorney’s Office, but we’ll fill…
Don’t know how the rumors got started — Seattle-based Fisher Communications-owned Pegasus News does, however — but Fair to Midland’s publicist just e-mailed Unfair Park and everyone else to let us and you know that the band ain’t playing no stinkin’ free show on Jul7 25 at the House of…
For frequent flyers who hate peanuts and don’t buy their toiletries in containers of four ounces or less, there’s hope yet: Later this month, a 13-foot-wide machine will be installed in Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport’s Terminal A, near Gate 29. It’s offered by a company called Shop24, and it will…
Interesting story last week in The Dallas Morning News on the struggles F.C. Dallas has had in attracting Mexican fans. In the story, G.M. Michael Hitchcock said he wasn’t interested in taking advantage of the new designated player rule (which allowed the L.A. Galaxy to sign David Beckham) to sign…
So, I’m up here in Chicago — yeah, yeah, doing this again, despite the cries of protest. And, funny thing, whenever anyone finds out I’m from Dallas, the very first thing they say is something along the lines of, “Man, we’d love it if Mark Cuban got the Cubs.” It’s…
Gamers are all atwitter (and pale, most likely, and possibly a little overweight) at the mere speculation that just maybe, there could possibly be some news to come from 2007 QuakeCon at the Hilton Anatole, which kicks off August 2. Seems Todd Hollenshead, CEO and co-owner of id Software, suggested…
Yesterday, we heard from a Friend of Unfair Park that the Dallas Veterans Administration Medical Center had a little mishap over the weekend. A handful of critical machines in the hospital ceased to function after a sprinkler line ruptured and flooded the floor. The hospital assures Unfair Park that staffers…
I am sure that if Jim Schutze were not on vacation, he would want to comment on at least one particular section of Bruce Tomaso’s piece today about how much dough The Trinity Commons Foundation has raised to Sink the Petition! Save the Trinity! I point you specifically to the…
Yesterday we learned that Palm Bay, Florida, got our former fire chief. Today, we discover Dallas gets in return the assistant county administrator from Palm Beach, Florida — a gentleman named Ray Waznie, and you might want to write down the name. He’ll be working in the city’s Development Services…
We’ve known for a few weeks that Dallas-Fort Worth was growin’. Sure, it isn’t swelling the fastest. That honor goes to Lincoln, a suburb outside of Sacramento, California, which had an explosive growth rate of 236 percent since the 2000 census, according to Forbes online, which paid an outside research…
If I was taking a poll right now for most bizarre story in Dallas in 2007, I would have to go with the tale of two Muslim women who keep drawing attention to themselves by acting as if they have jihad on their minds. It started after midnight on Monday…
Teresa Nasty Real guns and roses At The Cavern last Friday, the band She-Dick, which was profiled in last week’s issue, performed what may have been their last show with the original line-up. Not even a year old and they go all Destiny’s Child on us with a band change…
When immigration agents visited six Swift meatpacking plants around the country last week, they made 19 arrests. One of those arrests was of Chris Lamb, an Iowa human resources employee who’s being charged with harboring illegal immigrants. Makes you wonder if, seven months after Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested more…
Andy Uhler, of KUT-FM (90.5) down in Austin, will be walkin’ the streets of Deep Ellum for the next couple of days for a story about the past, present and future of Deep Ellum. Picked a good time to do it, before the rest of the landmark collection of early…
A few weeks back, I drove the kiddo to The Bubble and Turtle Creek for a Sunday-morning walk along Lakeside Drive — well, it was either that or Bachman Lake, and we’d already spent the previous weekend collecting used condoms. And whilst back among the concrete teddy bears on the…
Fact is, Steve Abraira, Palm City just sounds nicer than Dallas — more tropical, ya know? Or, like, a place where superheroes and soap stars live. Almost two years ago, Dallas Fire Chief Steve Abraira was told by Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm: Quit or be fired. So he resigned,…
Congratulations to Mike Orren and Pegasus News, which has been acquired by Seattle-based Fisher Communications, a media company that owns some 27 media outlets in the Northwest. Financial terms haven’t been disclosed yet, but they will be: Fischer’s a high-priced NASDAQ-traded stock ($50.80, as of this morning) with extensive Securities…
We hadn’t been to the Stoneleigh Hotel blog in a while, but we stopped by this morning only to find the just-posted answer to a question we never really had: Just where did those lions guarding the front door come from? Long story short, courtesy the mysterious “Dave W”: They…
Stacy Keibler will show you her legs if you show her yours. Do you have legs? And do you know how to use ’em? Because if the answer is “yes” to at least one of those questions, do we have just the event for you. See, we just got a…
Photo by Casey Monahan The highlight of our Saturday night: singing “Happy Birthday” to Roky Erickson as he turned 60 years old, in the city in which he was born. At first, we wondered how many folks might show — coulda been half-empty or sold-out, we guesstimated on our drive…
